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Josh Sookman

Josh Sookman is the Founder and VP of Business Development for Guardly, the leading provider of indoor positioning and mobile app-based crisis communications solutions to large enterprises. Josh is an active member of ASIS and SIA, and a contributing writer to several security industry publications. His volunteer work in youth entrepreneurship has included initiatives with Stanford, MIT, Intel, Verizon and several local technology incubators in Toronto, Canada, where he resides. Contact Josh and learn more at: https://www.guardly.com

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Technologies Offer You a Better Shot at Managing Active Shooter Threats

Josh Sookman

January 27, 2015

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Preparing for active shooter threats is an increasingly common challenge. Although these events are a low-probability risk at any given site, the magnitude of improperly handling an event of this nature can have devastating effects on your business (i.e. negative PR, public perception, lost sales), your company culture, and possibly even your career.

Smartphones Gain Ground, Mobile Cybersecurity Gains Importance

Josh Sookman

December 9, 2014

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Last month, I wrote an article on the Emergence of Smartphones as a Key Platform for Security Industry that discussed the growing ubiquity of smartphones within the workplace and the increasing number of mobile apps that have the ability to collect information from its environment such as video streams, audio streams, indoor location and information from other sensors.

Emergence of Smartphones as a Key Platform for Security Industry

Josh Sookman

November 25, 2014

Convergence and integration have become buzzwords in the security industry, and mostly for good reason.

Vendor System Integrations Accelerate in the Security Industry

Josh Sookman

April 23, 2013

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With the shift from analog to digital and few managed systems to many, security operations teams are facing new challenges when it comes to managing vast amounts of real-time and archived information, and making sense of it all when important decisions need to be made quickly. Meet big data.

Whitepaper: Assessing Emergency Response Times on Campus

Josh Sookman

December 5, 2012

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This whitepaper from Guardly Safe Campus compares the swiftness of incident response efforts by university campus security between new smartphone applications and existing methods of reporting.

The Top 20 Cybersecurity Conferences to Attend in 2020

Top Seven Cybersecurity Trends in 2020

How the Security Operations Center Can Create Customer Confidence

New Research Finds Half of SOCs are Ineffective

The Changing Role of the CISO

U.S. Department of Defense Publishes New Cybersecurity Standards

Events

February 25, 2020

Addressing Workplace Violence in Healthcare: A Collaborative Model

Locations that were once considered safe havens such as schools, places of worship and healthcare institutions are no longer immune to acts of violence, and that includes healthcare, such as hospitals, emergency rooms, and facilities that provide healthcare outside of a hospital environment.

March 26, 2020

Passive vs. Active Video Surveillance at Yale University

This webinar will cover the design phase of the Yale Police Department’s existing radar layout at the Yale Bowl and the security challenges it has presented. It will also discuss the need to keep the historical nature of the Yale Bowl building in mind while designing a new surveillance system. In addition, the webinar will cover how the Yale public safety team is using the new surveillance system to identify a suspect to decide, in real time, whether or not to dispatch additional resources.

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2020 February

This month, Security magazine highlights John McClurg, Senior VP and CISO at Blackberry, and the evolving role of the CISO. Also, we highlight Tim McCreight, Acting CSO for the city of Calgary, Alberta, and discuss if civilians can truly Stop the Bleed and how to calculate ROI for better security. Industry leaders discuss public references and their impact on security careers, information security frameworks and convergence trends in 2020.

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